Bishop LeBlond High School is a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

, Roman Catholic high school

High school

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 in St. Joseph, Missouri. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph

Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the state of Missouri in the United States, erected on September 10, 1880, as the Diocese of Kansas City, with territories taken from the Archdiocese of Saint Louis. ...

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Background

Bishop LeBlond High School was established as an all girls school in 1960 by the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, KS. It succeeded the Convent of the Sacred Heart when the Madames of the Sacred Heart withdrew from St. Joseph. It was named after Bishop Charles H. LeBlond, former Bishop of the diocese. In 1970 it became coeducational when the all boys Christian Brothers High School closed.